by Richard Wilson | Mar 3, 2021 | Opinion
Walter Brueggemann is a prophet in our time. A connecting thread through his life’s calling as a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Christian testament is the holy task of unmasking domineering powers through millennia of human history. Carrying his woven theme of...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 15, 2020 | Opinion
“Truth and Hope: Essays for A Perilous Age” is a timely new book by Walter Brueggemann. “Truth-telling is grounded in the God who will not be mocked by our illusions,” he writes. “Hope is God-grounded in the conviction that even our wayward resistance does not negate...
by James L. Evans | Jan 17, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Jan. 15, 2007. James L. Evans was pastor of Auburn First Baptist Church in Alabama at the time of publication. It is republished today for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, as King remains a significant model...
by Michael Cheuk | May 2, 2013 | General
A sermon by Michael Cheuk, Pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va. Acts 11:1-18 Have you ever had a really bizarre dream? I remember when I was in the third or fourth grade and I dreamed that I was on a school field trip, not to a museum or some...
by Keith Herron | Sep 20, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on September 16, 2012. The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 4:23-28 In an ancient age of wisdom, the preacher of Ecclesiastes wrote, “For everything there is a season, a...
